Every James Bond Movie EVER Will Soon Be Available On Blu-ray, Including Nine Not Yet On Blu!!

One of the more interesting tidbits to emerge from CES this week is news that a forthcoming amalgamation of James Bond Blu-rays - intended to commemorate the film franchise's 50th anniversary - will not only feature all already released 007 Blu-ray titles, but 9 007 movies which have yet to see the light of day on Blu.

This means: the only pictures not included in this set would be John Huston's 1967 CASINO ROYALE adaptation (starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen - although it's available on Blu HERE seperately) and EMPIRE STRIKES BACK director Irvin Kirshner's bizarroverse Sean Connery follow-up NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (available seperately on Blu HERE). Presumably, complicated rights issues - and the fact that neither title is traditionally considered a 'proper' chapter in Bond franchises as as most underrstand it - prohibited the inclusion of these titles.

Artwork for this mega-set has now been released ('tis EMBIGGENABLE!):

...and the collection is now up for pre-order on Amazon HERE. This press release discusses the release further...

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JAMES BOND CELEBRATES FIFTY INCREDIBLE YEARS

WITH GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY COLLECTION

BOND 50

THE WORLD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL SECRET AGENT MEETS THE WORLD’S BEST HOME ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE

In celebration of James Bond’s monumental golden anniversary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment today unveiled BOND 50, a collectible box-set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray Disc for the first time in one complete offering. The longest running film franchise of all time, the Bond 50 collection marks the debut of nine James Bond films previously unavailable in high definition Blu-ray. Fans around the world can pre-order now with participating online retailers.

Acclaimed Bond directors John Glen (five Bond films including For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights & Licence To Kill), Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale) and Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough) with special guests Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Caterina Murino (Casino Royale) made the Blu-ray announcement today during a Directors’ Panel discussion in the Panasonic Booth at the annual Consumer Electronics Show.

BOND 50 showcases fifty years of Bond neatly packaged into one cool, sleek collectable box-set featuring all six iconic James Bond actors. Produced using the highest possible picture quality and audio presentation, the collection includes all 22 James Bond feature films from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace and more than 130 hours of bonus features including some new and exclusive content.

“With all 22 feature films available on Blu-ray in one collection for the first time this is a great way for fans to catch up on 007’s epic journey before Skyfall hits theaters next Fall,” said Michael Brown, Senior Vice President, MGM Home Entertainment. “Now viewers can enjoy the intense action of the innovative franchise in the most immersive home experience possible.”

“We have a whole program of exciting activities planned for our 50th anniversary year, beginning with today’s announcement, by Fox, of the release of all 22 films on Blu-ray for the very first time,’’ added Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, with Eon Productions. “We are also delighted that Fox has unveiled a specially designed anniversary poster which we hope the fans will love as much as we do. Our website, 007.com will be regularly updated with all the latest anniversary news and events.”

ABOUT EON PRODUCTIONS

EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC are wholly owned and controlled by the Broccoli/Wilson family. Danjaq is the US based company that owns, together with MGM, the James Bond franchise. EON Productions, an affiliate of Danjaq, is the UK based production company which makes the James Bond films. The 007 franchise is the longest running in film history with twenty-two films produced since 1962. Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli took over the franchise from Albert R ‘Cubby’ Broccoli in 1995 and have produced some of the most successful Bond films ever including CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE. The twenty-third film entitled SKYFALL is currently in production.

ABOUT TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download. The company also releases all products globally for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world.

ABOUT METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. is actively engaged in the worldwide production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home video, interactive media, music, and licensed merchandise. The company owns the world’s largest library of modern films, comprising around 4,100 titles. Operating units include Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc., United Artists Films Inc., MGM Television Entertainment Inc., MGM Networks Inc., MGM Distribution Co., MGM International Television Distribution Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC, MGM ON STAGE, MGM Music, MGM Consumer Products and MGM Interactive. In addition, MGM has ownership interests in domestic and international TV channels reaching over 130 countries. For more information, visit www.mgm.com.

Come on, you don't get to write for a major movie website and misspell the name of one of cinema's great directors. I don't care if the illiterate Knowles is your boss--it takes sixty seconds to fact-check something like that.

Have you tried reading 'Devil May Care'? James Bond book, set in the sixties, written by Sebastien Faulks in the style of Flemming? It's a pretty good read, not sure about the villain with the monkey paw though!

being that I'm the only one who made the comment. And I agree with you. Doesn't mean that's not the direction things are headed. In the future, everyone will consume media on either their smart phone or xbox/playstation/wii etc. It's already happening.
Just look at the market for CD boxed sets. The Beatles set was the last one that will ever move millions of units.
Physical media will become a niche market, like vinyl is now.

I'll second that. Brosnan's Bond films got progressively worse. And the dirty little secret, Goldeneye was scripted with Dalton in mind. Imagine if Dalton was in it; it would have been an even bigger box-office hit! Dalton's two Bond movies were intended for Moore and Brosnan. Yep, License to Kill was intended to be Brosnan's first foray into James Bond.

But The Worst Bond Movie ever already intended for Brosnan? You must be kiddin'.
Oh, and yes, the Brosnan Movies kept getting worse... until that Die Another Day came out. Felt good for an anniversary, was fun, had the worst SFX EVER, but still had some shiny diamonds (not just in Berry's navel...). I still love it!

1) Available exclusively as a download to the paid subscribers of his website
2) Available exclusively at Target
3) Given away for free with a London tabloid.
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Pearl Jam, Nirvana and U2 boxed sets most definetely qualify as niche. They are super-delux sets to commemorate the anniversary of particular albums. No casual fan is going to drop 400 bucks on an uber edition of Achtung Baby.
Like I said: niche.
And as far as the Stones. Christ, they release a new box set everytime another baby boomer turns 65.
BD will probably be last fully mass marketed physical format that we will see simply because everything is going digital now, and discs are slowly becoming out-dated.
As one Prince fan to another, let's just agree to disagree on this one.

The only Bond that looks like he might be about to fight SPECTRE while all the others are just interested in getting chicks - or holding their own balls like Dirty Dalton :)
As for the complicated rights issues - different studios released them. Sorry, I can break it down further if you want?
I love Bond but will never buy another Bond on disc as they must be the most over-released films in history.
How many times on video? How many times on DVD - it's only a matter of time before these get another rerererererererererererererererelease - with riveting extras like an interview with a man who likes Broccoli and also likes the word Cubby.
Fuck off EON - no more money from me, you make Lucasfilm look inept. You might not have tampered with the films in the same way but you still did fuck up the ratio of the first three or four Bond films for the special definitive widescreen rerelease back on Video.

Dalton's third Bond film was going to be 'Property of a Lady' (Anthony Hopkins as villain and the first Bond film to be shot in China) but then Kevin McClory jumped in with his 'I invented SPECTRE so have the rights to James Bond argument - again' and by the time it was going to be filmed Dalton had pulled out of his contract amicably. Dalton was already Bond when Licence to Kill was written under the standard three movie contract.
The Living Daylights was written for Roger Moore though.

I already own all the other films on Blu-ray. Now I have to buy this set to get the remaining 9? Fox is the worst. And if they were smart (they aren't) they'd leave an open slot in the box for Skyfall, since that's part of the 50th Anniversary. I wish I ran Hollywood.

I don't remember it all that well now but I don't remember it ever deviating from the traditional Bond elements...so every Bond movie is included in this set except for that?
unless they all get 4K remasters most of them will still look like crap on Blu-ray...only crazy, die hard, convention attending, Bond fanatics will buy this...the kind that watch all the Spike TV marathons

Holding our favorite movies/music/TV/porn hostage until we submit to their dominance.
But as I said, I'm right there with you. I'm old enough to remember the dark ages of music media: those few years when records were dying and CDs hadn't caught on, and we were all left squinting to admire the cover art on a 3 x 5 cassette sleave.
Come to think of it, I think my original copy of SOTT is on cassette.
But until every last Gen Xr dies off, there will always be a market for physical media. It will just be more of a collector's market, like laserdiscs and vinyl.
Kids today! Watching their Lawrence of Arabias on their damn epods.

I already own the available movies on Blu-Ray. Will the nine unreleased movies be available individually? Also, are these the same editions as the previous Blu-Ray releases (which were the same as the previous DVD release)?

The Daniel Craig Reboot gets it right, no gadgets and no crazy cars just like the book. The Dalton Films were ok but everything else especially the Roger Moore tomfoolery simply can die as far as I'm concerned!

It's a separate Bond franchise (of one film) created by someone who sued over the rights to Thunderball and won. Sadly, I believe it's also why Blofeld and SPECTRE will never be mentioned again in a Bond film.

McClory sued to regain the rights, which is why Never is essentially Thunderball redux. According to IMDB, Steven Seagal was a martial arts instructor for the film and accidently broke Connery's wrist during training.

I know i may get the bond fanboy's but i loved
Roger moore's moonraker and went from there... then timothy dalton and pierce brosnan was awesome... and psychopathic daniel craig is just well my favorite right now, but they should had brosnan come back there was nothing wrong with him...

I don´t get the hate. Also right at the top: Goldfinger, Dr. No, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Spy Who Loved Me, and .
GoldenEye.
The real shitty ones (that I still want anyway because, well, they´re James Bond flicks): You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, Man With The Golden Gun, Moonraker, Licence to Kill, and Quantum of Solace.
I´d just purchased my eight Blu out of the thirteen currently available titles so, fuck that money, right? Because I really plan on getting this motherfucker- package alone beats the individual and three-movie packs I´d already gotten.
Finally, what makes a Bond flick for me are (in this exact order): the right Bond, obviously; the light-mood-infused globe-trotting, international intrigue adventures (Bond is neither Bourne nor Jack Ryan, all gritty and somber, but he most certainly shouldn´t go all the opposite way to the flat-out lunacy to be found in the early Moore ones) and the hot-ass chicks, the most he fucks the better (fuck political correctness in the AIDS era; again, this is James Bond).
Oh, yeah. Lots of hot-ass Bond chicks.

Seriously, Barbara Bach is the greatest Bond girl ever and "The Spy Who Loved Me" is a pretty damned good example of Roger Moore playing Bond *seriously*. It's the gold standard for classic Bond films outside of Goldfinger. Perfect Song, Perfect Girl, Near Perfect Villain(though when Curd Jurgen gives that stupid "the world beneath the sea" speech in the beginning I keep wanting to hear him Karaoke 'Octopusses Garden' by The Beatles), Perfect Henchman(Jaws is an ICON) The opening ski chase and all the stuff in egypt with Jaws chasing them around the Pyramids is awesome. Of course it was down hill after that with Moonraker but still. The Spy Who Loved Me remains my favorite Bond film to watch on projected on a big screen. It's fantastic.

Is perhaps the perfect "Prototypical" Bond movie - and my favorite. It's outrageous in a wonderful way, full of conviction, and dares to go to extremes with its villain and the scope and stakes. Casino (Daniel Craig) Royale, Dr. No and Thunderball might be "purer" Bond films, but THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is really what the "Big American Bond Movie" sensibility is all about, and every element is in balance.

I agree on your list, although I like LTK. TWINE was the first one I saw in theatres, although I'd been a fan for years. TWINE had a smoking hot (and batshit crazy) Bond girl and nukes. That was more than enough for me.
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TND was one big fist fight, but that's why I loved it.
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LALD and TMWTGG were one big chase, but that's 1970's cinema for you. Definitely two of the weakest films.
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Oh, and anyone that doesn't think FYEO was Moore's best Bond film needs to reevaluate their life.

Definitely loved this one, and agree that it's a prototypical Bond flick. That's why it blows me away when people say it's one of the worst. Pure bullshit, and people who hate it were probably born in the 1990's.

I can't believe it! The two greatest bond women (and I stress the women, not "girls" who came later) are missing from that promo clip. Not one single shot of Diane Rigg or Honor Blackman. Tracy Di Vicenzo, the only woman to ever marry Bond.... and Pussy Galore.... need I say more! Well, I'm gonna go pull-out my (Original) Avengers DVD collection and watch Mrs. Emma Peel and Mrs. Cathy Gale in action. While that's happening, I hope the Editor of this Bond 50th Anv. clip is in some back alley getting his (or her) ass-kicked!

2 Years ago I watched TSWLM with my roommates at the time(Male and Female, both in their early to mid 20s) and they laughed during the opening title sequence and thought the movie was "sooooo stupid." I kinda wanted to pummel them.

sky, thanks for helping me bring some reason into these lines, regarding World is Not Enough. I did like Licence to Kill, at the very least the final act, with the trailers (I love how Glen shot action- remember the sleds chase sequence in AHMSS?), but Bond in Latin America doesn't really feel like Bond to me, with the exception of the Havana scenes in Die Another Day. However, as I said, there's a certain space in my heart for every single one of the 22 existing flicks. It's James fucking Bond after all.
Comedian, your roommates sound retarded as all fuck and I'd love to injure them. I, personally, don´t believe it is a generational thing but, simply, a taste thing. I am very aware that '30´s King Kong is not a real giant ape but I still enjoy the thing and, sure as all fuck, do not start guffawing like a cretin at it.
Bah, I think when Bond became the world phenomenon we know today it stopped being the thoroughly british creation it originally was (go back to the very first Connery entries and you'll remember it, indeed, was; even- and probably, mostly- Goldfinger, which was set in America) and became the property of the world, which, in cinema terms, means Hollywood. I think a perfect example of what the Big American-and Dumb, I'd add- Bond Movie is comes with that scene -I don´t remember exactly which movie was, but I'm pretty sure it was Diamonds- where a cop stops Bond's car, asks him why he's speeding and he answers he is James Bond. The cop goes: "Oh, you are James Bond? In that case I'm Queen Elizabeth" or some other stupid shit like that.
And they can't award any of them the Oscar because the category is Foreign Language Film.

Moore was in his late 50s. I guess with Connery's competing return in Never Say Never Again having reinforced the image of an older Bond, they might have let Moore keep going if he wanted to (in contrast to how Brosnan would be shown the door after his contract was up). Moore felt he was too old and honestly he was too old by A View to a Kill, although I'm fond of that film because it was the first Bond film released during my teens and that I saw in the theater. I can't believe they got very far with the next script before Moore had let it be known he was moving on.

Sign me up for the "Sign o the times" remaster today! Agree with you on the demise of physical media. If I like something enough, I want to own a physical copy of it and not risk losing it because my computer, or someone else's, crashed. They said vinyl was dead a few years ago didn't they?

This box isn't a bad deal at less than ten bucks per movie. Unless you already own the thirteen previously released titles. Then you're basically paying $22 each for the final nine films new to Blu-ray.

The opening to Octopussy is classic Bond. And the finale of Goldeneye was over-the-top bond goodness. We won't discuss Die anotehr Day. Granted, they tend give it Cuba more a Caribbean vibe than a Latin American one.
As to the Americanizing of Bond -- taking place in America and making fun of American stereotypes doesn't make it American. Everything from filming locations to cameos is still thoroughly Euro-centric, if not entirely British.

Never Say Never Again is worth the novelty of Connery playing Bond in the 80's,. but its a tedious mess.
And NO physical media isn't going anywhere anytime soon, ten years at the earliest. If CD's are dying its not like its a quick death...30 years is not quick. Besides, CDs were never as cheap as DVDs/BR. Why should anyone pay $20 for two good songs when bit torrents have it all for free?
People like physical media and it won't go the way of the 8-track, not for at least another decade...

without stuttering. Anyhow, why would you want to give up hard copy back ups? What I would like to see is those holographic versatile discs, so that you could fit all of those movies in high def on one disc.

And still they haven't sorted out the rights of Never Say Never Again? Fuck that shit. It should be boycotted untill they get Never Say Never Again in the. Bunch of fucking moneygrabbing bastards. Gotta admit though, when someone tells me he bought a Bond boxset, I have to start talking about Never Say Never again.

There are deleted scenes on the DVD that were written for Roger Moore (*or at least a Moore style Bond).
A scene where he escapes across some rooftops by placing a rug between wires and people double taking as though it was a magic carpet etc.
I think that Moore probably did tell them he was leaving but I think he'd been doing that since Moonraker and Broccoli always convinced him to come back. So, in essence the script was written for Moore

....is suspect! And no Bond film, with the exception of the excruciating 1967 version of Casino Royale, was worst than A View To A Kill. That being said, I even enjoyed parts of that dreck (mostly Christopher Walken) because it was BOND, and I'm definitely on board to pick up the Blu-ray 50th aniversary box set.

I´d completely fucking forgotten about the Octopussy teaser! Thanks, really. That shit blew my fucking mind when I first watched it in the theater and it´s been years since I watched it. Hopefully next time will be upon unpacking this set around this coming Christmas- or, hopefully, before (I thought Christmas only came once a year and all that-winkwink).
I don´t remember much about Never Say Never Again either, other than Barbara Carrera gave- and still gives- me a grade-A boner every time a look at her in this thing and any other flick she showed up in circa 80's. Man, what a fuckin hot-ass piece of meat.
Haven´t checked out Amazon yet. Anyone knows for how much this is going?

I spent many hours underwater in my pool, "breathing" air out of the nozzle of an inflatable raft to replicate the scene where Bond breathes out of a car's tires. Guess what, it doesn't work very well!

a view to a kill and never say never are
connery and moores worst.
timothy dalton and craigs bonds are the worst, bond started sucking for me after moore
and them canning and watering down the john barry music, goldeneye having a watered down
ok alternative bond score being the last mediocre
bond film.
brosnan sounded great and suave and said bond, james bond correctly (wich the pussy craig hasnt said once).
hated timothy dalton as the producers
tried turning bond into tom clancy jack ryan
and hate craig with them americanizing
bond and no john barry score.
a bond movie without barrys score is like
star wars without williams music.
nuff said. music is 80% of a film and just as important as a character in it and generaly why film franchises fall apart.

and lighten up, stop watching batman begins. bond isnt fun anymore, craig is just as painful to watch as a hero without charisma as
christian bale and emosnot haydeson christiansen.
when mculley kulken has more charm than you..bond has problems.